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The self-hosted Modal alternative

Modal is a cloud platform for running Python workloads—serverless functions, scheduled jobs and GPU tasks. It offers containerized execution, autoscaling, deployment tooling and job scheduling for data, AI and backend workloads.

Alternatives to Modal

Starts workloads on demand and automatically stops them after inactivity; integrates with reverse proxies and supports Docker, Swarm and Kubernetes.

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2.9k stars95 forksAGPL-3.0last commit Actively maintained

What replacing Modal actually involves

Every option on this page is open source and free to run on your own hardware, so you own the data and there is no subscription to cancel. 1 of 1 shipped a commit in the last six months. Licences in this list: AGPL-3.0. In exchange you take on hosting, backups and updates yourself.

Browse everything in Container Management (Docker & Stacks).

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